Quotes by Walt Disney

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."

"You reach a point where you don't work for money."

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

"You reach a point where you don't work for money."

"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."

"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

"You can't just let nature run wild."

"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."

"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."

"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."

"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."

"We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

"I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."

"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."

"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."

"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."